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Type of partition required for a dual boot system
What kind of a hard disk partition is required for dual booting a computer(specifically taking windows and ubuntu). Since, I did not know anything about partitioning, I decided to dedicate my E drive(...
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External HDD unrecognized in Win10 but works fine in Win8.1
An external drive (Seagate Freeagent Xtreme 1.5TB) has some issues:
the filesystem cannot be recognized (1 NTFS partition but detected as RAW)
the drive cannot be accessed - an error pops up saying "...
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Ubuntu doesn't show hard drive partitions properly
I first had Windows 8.1 on my laptop installed and now I'm trying to add Ubuntu 15.10 and be able to dual boot. I have freed up some space and partitioned my hard drive for the Ubuntu installation.
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Ubuntu 14.04 is not showing my existing Windows 8.1 partitions
I am trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 alongside Windows 8.1. My hard disk drive has three partitions, but they are not recognized by the installer:
What should I do to Install Ubuntu alongside the ...
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Installing linux on unallocated partition
That's my HD. I want to install Elementary OS (Ubuntu based) on that unallocated partition without loosing Windows or any other partition.
I tried to make a new partition out of it in gparted but it ...
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Windows 8.1 no longer recognize disk with a NTFS AND a ext4 ubuntu install
So, as I do every 6 month, I installed a Ubuntu partition on my computer. I have a main SSD (C:) with Win8.1 on it and I had a secondary HDD (D:) with a single huge NTFS partition on it for my data. ...
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Transferring data from windows hosting disk to Ubuntu hosting disk from within Windows 8.1
I have two disks in my pc (disk 1: a SSD hosting Ubuntu. Disk 2: a mechanical hard disk hosting Windows 8.1) I basically have no internet connection on my Ubuntu operating system due to the fact that ...
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Dual boot, 4 disks, raid0
I have windows 8.1, and ubuntu 14.04 on the Disk 0. On ubuntu the four disks are merged. on windows i want to merge disks 1,2,3 (the windows half). but when i click to new striped volume, it says "...
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